'RECENT SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND LEGAL EFFORTS TO SECURE NATIONAL BORDERS IN THE U.S., EUROPE, ISRAEL, AND IRAQ'

摘要

Terrorism is the systematic use of violence and force as a means ofrncoercion through fear and intimidation. It emerged as a concept in 1793-94 during thernReign of Terror in France. Since that time, terrorism has been used by dissident groupsrnto violently intimidate a population or government into granting their demands. Thernsystematic use of violence has undergone a transformation since World War II and hasrnmade violence even more fearsome and inhuman. The calculated murder of politicalrnpersonalities and military personnel to achieve political objectives has given way to thernrandom killing of innocent people and civilian populations.rnThe events of September 11, 2001 call for action on many fronts. Almost everyrnindustrialized nation in the world had citizens lost in those terrible days, and many of usrnwere directly affected with family members, friends and colleagues that are no longerrnwith us. INCOSE has formed the Anti-Terrorism Working Group (ATIWG) in Octoberrn2001. The mission of the ATIWG is to demonstrate the use of systems engineeringrnprinciples, techniques, and practices to the reduction and eradication of this internationalrnterrorism. The systems engineering approach is most amenable to such evaluationsrnbecause of its use of multi-disciplines to examine all facets of the problem space. Thernterrorist activities of September 11, 2001, the Bali bombings of October 2002, the sniperrnshootings of October 2002, the attack on the UN Building in October 2003, the trainrnbombing in Madrid, Spain during March 2004 and many previous terrorist events inrnJapan, France, Scotland, Africa, the Middle East and the United States demonstrate thatrnthe terrorist groups have the ability to perform systematic analyses and use thernsophisticated systems built by the industrialized countries against random innocentrnpeople at virtually any location on the globe.